my cpp and .h files are exactly what came when i downloaded the CS, i've reextracted the zip, and recoppied them over. Tried recompileing a debug and a release of CS. Get the same error when i use the debug version except for it says libcsutil_d.lib since it's debug.

I've double checked the presence of the path to the files under VC++ Directories, in the options page.

I have the Preprocessor information entered correctly.

I have runtime library set to use Multi-threaded DLL (/MD)

I downloaded it, extracted it. Installed the cs-win32libs-0.98r004_001.exe and then compiled CS. It works fine. All the compiled demos work great.

I'm not sure when it comes to Visual C++, but I imagine the library dependencies have changed since that doc was written in 2003 (looks like it needs to be updated). Some of the libraries mentioned in the doc may have been deprecated.

I tried removing the path information to where the libs are located, and There was no change to the error message, which confused me. Since you would think it would whine alot more. So it's almost like it can't find them at all.

So i tried copying and pasting the Libs from CS\mk\visualc7\csrelease\bin\libs to my CS\include folder. Since i know it's seeing that folder since it's reading all of those include files from it. But this had no apparent change.

I'm going to try just remaking a brand new solution in Visual Studio and remake it from scratch. See if that fixes the problem.